Transcripts of News Conferences and other Public Presentations of the
Institute

Speakers at "Celebrating Teachers,"
the program for the Institute's 25th Anniversary Gala on November 13, 2002
included:

Calvin Trillin

Peyton Patterson, President, New Haven Savings Bank

Reginald Mayo, Superintendent, New Haven Public Schools

Richard C. Levin, President, Yale University

Daniel W. Kops, Chairman, Anniversary Celebration Committee

Howard R. Lamar, Honoree, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History
and Former President of Yale University

Michele Pierce, Principal, Harriet Tubman Charter School

Bill Cosby

In December 1995 the Institute held a
Celebration to mark the completion of endowment challenge grants
awarded in 1990 by the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and in 1991 by
the National Endowment for the Humanities. Speakers included:

At "Excellence in Teaching: A Common Goal," a National Conference of
Chief State School Officers and College and University Presidents, held on
February 17, 1983, the
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute was presented as a case study of how
university-school collaboration can strengthen teaching and improve
learning in the nation's schools. Panelists included

A. Bartlett Giamatti, President, Yale University

Ernest L. Boyer, President, The
Carnegie Foundation for The Advancement of Teaching

At "Excellence in Teaching: A Common Goal," A National Conference of
Chief State Officers and College and University Presidents, held at Yale
University on February 16-18, 1983, a
panel of Chiefs and Presidents was interviewed by Robert MacNeil,
Executive Editor, "The MacNeil-Lehrer Report." Panelists included:

Gordon M. Ambach, President, The University of the State of New York,
Commissioner of Education, State of New York

Norman C. Francis, President, Xavier University of Louisiana

A. Bartlett Giamatti, President, Yale University

Craig Phillips, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, State of
North Carolina.

Mr. MacNeil then moderated questions from the floor.

"Excellence in Teaching: A Common Goal" is the transcript of a
twenty-seven minute videotape program on the results of the National
Conference held at Yale University February 16-18, 1983. The program
features A. Bartlett Giamatti, Ernest L. Boyer, Robert MacNeil, Gordon M.
Ambach, Norman C. Francis, and Craig Phillips.